Milton Police Department entry pay

What Milton says about itself

Like the City it calls home, the Milton Police Department stands apart. Our officers are committed to strong community partnerships through which we can better address crime and public safety concerns.

What Milton does

The Milton Police Department serves the city of Milton in north Fulton County, Georgia, on the northern edge of metropolitan Atlanta. The Department runs a Career Development Program with pay incentives and a SWAT assignment, reimburses tuition up to $3,000 a year, and gives paid time off rising from 133.1 hours a year in the first year of service to 266.3 hours at ten to fourteen years, with up to 252 hours carried over. Officers are enrolled in a 401(a) with the City and the employee each contributing 6.2 per cent, alongside a voluntary 457 plan the City matches at 200 per cent of the employee's contribution up to 12 per cent. Officers who arrive already certified receive a $4,000 sign-on incentive, half after field training and half after probation.

Where the figure comes from

Checked 20 September 2026. City of Milton, Police Jobs: "Base pay starting at $54,431" — open the source document
$54,431 is the City's own annual base figure and no arithmetic has been applied to it. THE NON-LATERAL TEST IS SETTLED BY HOW THE CITY PRICES CERTIFICATION: it is a BONUS, not a different base - '$4,000 sign-on incentive for certified officers - $2,000 after FTO and $2,000 after probation' - so an already-certified applicant and a candidate with no prior service start on the same base pay and the certified one simply collects an incentive on top. Trainee class: NOT PRICED - the City names no separate cadet, recruit or academy wage. Excluded from the figure: that $4,000 certified sign-on incentive, the Career Development Program pay incentives, SWAT pay, tuition reimbursement of up to $3,000 a year, and the retirement contributions (a 401(a) with the City and employee each putting in 6.2 per cent, and a voluntary 457 the City matches at 200 per cent up to 12 per cent). THE FIGURE CARRIES NO EFFECTIVE DATE. NEXT DOCUMENT: the City of Milton pay plan or adopted budget, which would date it. NAME TRAP: Milton, Georgia is in north Fulton County, next to Alpharetta, which is already on the roster; there are also Miltons in Massachusetts, Delaware, Florida, Pennsylvania and Vermont, several with their own departments.
Entry-level base salary only. Overtime, bonuses, education incentives, shift differentials, locality pay and lateral rates are excluded, so most officers earn more than this.

How this level compares

Where Milton sits is partly about the agency and partly about which level of policing it belongs to. The three levels do not pay the same.

How it ranks

Common questions

How much does a Milton Police Department officer make?

Milton Police Department starts a new officer on $54,431 a year, about $26.17 an hour on a 2,080-hour year. That is base salary before overtime, bonuses, education incentives, shift differentials and locality pay, so most serving officers earn more. The figure comes from City of Milton, Police Jobs: "Base pay starting at $54,431".

Is that good pay for a police officer in Georgia?

It ranks #49 of 80 agencies we have verified in Georgia — 31 pay less, 48 pay more in the state — and #1,893 of 2,288 nationally. Against the national median it is $12,254 below, and against other municipal agencies $13,709 below.

The agencies either side of it